§ MR. J. M. ROBERTSONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to allegations complaining that the recent forcing of the resignation of M. Lambert, by the action of Mr. Dunlop, from the presidency of the Khedivial Law School of Egypt, is part of a persistent policy of repression and discouragement of that school and of French instruction generally, in contravention of the friendly guarantee of French educational interests which was stipulated for in 1904; and whether it was also by the action of Mr. Dunlop that the Government œoleNormale, where there were many French professors, was closed, and that the teaching of French in the Government primary schools was abolished.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYThere is no truth whatever in the allegation that M. Lambert's resignation was forced. As I have previously stated, it was not desired at all. I have no information about the œoleNormale, but there is no intention whatever of not keeping the agreements of 1904 in the spirit and in the letter both in Egypt and elsewhere.
In reply to a further Question, Sir EDWARD GREY was understood to say that the point raised by M. Lambert was conceded to him rather than that he should resign.